TENNIS
India’s problem in singles ends at ITF juniors tennis match
Maya Dutta of USA beat high seed Suhitha Maruri 6-4, 6-2 within the women quarterfinals of the ITF juniors tennis match on the CLTA Complex on Thursday.
The Indian problem in singles ended as NIyati Kukreti and Madhurima Sawant have been additionally overwhelmed within the quarterfinals by Doinika Podhajecka of Poland and Allegra Korpanec Davies of Britain respectively.
Results
Boys: Timofei Derepasko bt Pranav Karthik 6-0, 6-2; Shingo Masuda (Jpn) bt Chieh En Hou (Tpe) 6-3, 6-1; Cho Se Hyuk (Kor) bt Rohan Belday (USA) 6-4, 4-6, 6-3; Donghyun Hwang (Kor) bt Ke Hau Hung (Tpe) 6-1, 3-6, 6-3.
Girls: Maya Dutta (USA) bt Suhitha Maruri 6-4, 6-2; Lidia Podgorichani (Tha) bt Kitti Molnar (Hun) 6-3, 4-6, 6-3; Dominika Podhajecka (Pol) bt Niyati Kukreti 6-3, 7-6(9); Allegra Korpanec Davies (GBR) bt Madhurima Sawant 6-3, 6-3.
Ankita, Rutuja lose second spherical
Seventh seed Ankita Raina was overwhelmed 6-7(1), 6-0, 6-4 by wild card Aunchisa Chanta within the pre-quarterfinals of the $40,000 ITF ladies’s tennis match in Nonthaburi, Thailand, on Thursday.
Rutuja Bhosale additionally misplaced her match after successful the primary set tie-break towards fifth seed Cagla Buyukakcay of Turkey.
The outcomes:
$40,000 ITF ladies, Nonthaburi, Thailand Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Aunchisa Chanta (Tha) bt Ankita Raina 6-7(1), 6-0, 6-4; Cagla Buyukakcay (Tur) bt Rutuja Bhosale 6-7(5), 6-1, 6-3.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
FOOTBALL
Kerala beats Jammu & Kashmir 3-0 in Santosh Trophy
Host Kerala scored a complete 3-0 win towards Jammu & Kashmir within the Santosh Trophy qualifying match right here on Thursday. All the objectives got here within the second half.
M. Vikensh drew first blood for Kerala six minutes after the interval. Riswan Ali and Nijo Gilbert scored the opposite objectives.
It was Nijo’s high quality lengthy ball into the field that arrange the opening aim, with Viknesh doing effectively to shoot from a troublesome angle.
The second aim got here off an outstanding sq. cross from contained in the field by Vishak Mohanan, whose tempo had overwhelmed the defenders. Riswan did the remainder. Then within the harm time, Nijo transformed Viknesh’s cross.
The end result:
Kerala 3 (M. Viknesh 51, Riswan Ali 76, Nijo Gilbert 90+3) bt Jammu & Kashmir 0.
-P. Ok. Ajith Kumar
TRAU registers 2-0 win over Sudeva Delhi
TRAU FC jumped from sixth to fourth place on the Hero I-League desk with a convincing 2-0 win over Sudeva Delhi FC right here on Thursday.
With 16 factors to its identify, as many as Real Kashmir, TRAU stays behind the latter on the factors desk by dint of the head-to-head file between the 2 sides.
This was TRAU’s fifth victory at house in as many matches and apart from a number of moments, it all the time appeared in management.
It obtained extra corners and lots of extra makes an attempt at aim than its opponent and had extra possession. Goalkeeper Bishorjit Singh took care of the few openings created by Sudeva.
The hero for TRAU, nonetheless, was Ghanaian ahead Nana Poku. His defence-splitting cross to the left for Bikash Singh gave the house group its opening aim within the thirty ninth minute.
Poku himself made it 2-0 within the 54th minute when he obtained the ball contained in the six-yard field, turned easily and let loose a right-footer that took a slight deflection from a Sudeva defender earlier than it went in.
Sudeva stays all-time low with only one level garnered from its final match of 2022 towards Mohammedan Sporting.
-PTI
GOLF
Avani shoots day’s finest card of 68, lies T-Eighth at Australian Master of Amateurs
Avani Prashanth carded the day’s joint finest rating of 5-under 68 to leap 16 locations to tied eighth on the Australian Master of the Amateurs right here on Thursday.
Starting on the again 9, Avani discovered 4 birdies and added a fifth earlier than dropping the day’s lone bogey on Par-5 seventh. She made up for that with a birdie on eighth.
At 3-over 222, Avani is mendacity tied eighth as Yuna Araki of Japan (67-74-68) led the sphere at 10-under 209. Taiwan’s Hsin Chun Liao (70-72-72) at 5-under was second.
Avani started the week with a disappointing 79 and adopted that up with a 75 on the difficult Southern Golf Club, one of many most interesting programs on Melbourne’s well-known sandbelt.
The different Indian lady golfer within the area, Nishna Patel (82-77-75) missed the reduce, as solely the top-25 and ties from ladies’s part certified for the ultimate spherical.
In the lads’s part, each Shaurya Bhattacharya (75-74-71) and Aryan Roopa Anand (77-81-74) missed the reduce.
Interestingly, Avani will play the ultimate spherical with an Indian-origin golfer, Shyla Singh, who’s Australian by nationality. The 16-year-old Shyla, a promising expertise from Gold Coast, has had rounds of 76-72-74.
Avani, who not too long ago gained the ultimate leg of the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour whereas being an beginner final month, has additionally gained the All India Ladies and All India Junior titles in December. She headed into the week with three wins on the trot.
Avani is at the moment ranked 104th within the World Amateur Golf rankings. She is taking a look at entering into the Top-100.
The Australian Master of the Amateurs is a 72-hole medal play Championship and has of late turn into one of many elite championships in beginner golf. Like The Masters, the champion receives a Green Jacket. Contestants take part within the first spherical of the championship with skilled golfers in a novel Am-Pro Invitational.
The Master of the Amateurs winner will get an invite to the Porter Cup within the U.S.
The Indian Golf Union has additionally despatched a four-member group for the Australian Master of Amateurs and a five-member group for the Australian Amateurs to be held subsequent week at New South Wales Golf Club and St Michael’s Golf Club exterior Sydney from Jan 10-13.
The 5 gamers for Australian Amateurs might be Avani and 4 boys, Aryan Roopa Anand, Shaurya Bhattacharya, Yuvraj Singh and Milind Soni.
PTI
VOLLEYBALL
Telangana bounces again to beat Kerala in National sub-junior volleyball championship
Telangana women bounced again after shedding the primary video games to beat Kerala 21-25, 21-25, 25-21, 25-22, 15-6 within the league stage of the ONGC forty fourth National sub-junior volleyball championship on the Laxmi Public School, Karkardooma, on Thursday.
The outcomes (league):
Boys: Group-A: Delhi bt Kerala 25-14, 25-15, 25-23; Karnataka bt Madhya Pradesh 23-25, 18-25, 25-14, 25-20, 15-8; Haryana bt Andhra Pradesh 25-23, 25-17, 25-19.
Group-B: Jammu & Kashmir bt Puducherry 25-20, 25-19, 25-21; Gujarat bt Chandigarh 25-22, 25-21, 25-22; Maharashtra bt Jammu & Kashmir 23-25, 19-25, 25-17, 25-23, 15-11.
Group-C: Tamil Nadu bt Bihar 25-21, 25-21, 25-21; West Bengal bt Jharkhand 22-25, 25-17, 23-25, 25-17, 15-9; Uttar Pradesh bt Uttarakhand 25-22, 25-18, 17-25, 25-17; Bihar bt Jharkhand 25-19, 25-21, 25-17; Uttar Pradesh bt West Bengal 25-13, 25-20, 25-11; Uttarakhand bt Tamil Nadu 25-15, 25-18, 25-20.
Group-D: Punjab bt Telangana 25-20 25-20, 25-22; Rajasthan bt Manipur 25-20, 25-17, 25-23; Himachal Pradesh bt Assam 25-20, 25-18, 25-20.
Girls: Group-A: Karnataka bt Madhya Pradesh 25-14, 25-8, 25-4; West Bengal bt Delhi 25-18, 25-14, 25-9.
Group-B: Uttar Pradesh bt Assam 25-19, 25-14, 25-11; Rajasthan bt Bihar 25-3, 25-8, 25-11; Maharashtra bt Punjab 25-10, 25-11, 25-11; Uttar Pradesh bt Punjab 25-15, 25-10, 25-6; Assam bt Bihar 25-5, 25-12, 25-15; Rajasthan bt Maharashtra 25-18, 30-28, 25-10.
Group-C: Haryana bt Himachal Pradesh 25-17, 25-19, 25-7; Gujarat bt Jharkhand 25-19, 25-15, 25-12.
Group-D: Puducherry bt Jammu & Kashmir 25-21, 25-17, 25-15; Uttarakhand bt Tamil Nadu 25-5, 25-8, 25-2; Telangana bt Kerala 21-25, 21-25, 25-21, 25-22, 15-6.
-Kamesh Srinivasan